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Rag Radio regular Roy Casagranda is Thorne Dreyer 's guest. Roy has been lecturing about Western Civilization and ancient history, "trying to tease out the misogynist and racist elements of the concept of Western Civilization and the way we look at it." Roy is also writing about the "Conspiracy to Write Women Out of History." And his new historical novel, The Blood Throne of Caria , "pushes back against the dominant misogynistic and racist portrayals of Artemisia I of...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Roy Casagranda, Tracey Schulz, Western Civilization, Racism, Misogyny
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Rag Radio political analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda join host Thorne Dreyer in our regular feature, Digging In! to the News. Among topics discussed are Trump's Hanoi heartbreak, the Cohen testimony and other developments in the Trump investigation; taking ISIL nationals back and why that's a good idea; the Texas voter registration fiasco; and the rise of AOC. Progress Texas PAC director Glenn Smith, is an op-ed columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, a columnist for The Quorum...
Topics: Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, Thorne Dreyer, Digging In!, News Analysis
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Oct 22, 2020
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Rag Radio news analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda join Thorne Dreyer to discuss the upcoming 2020 elections. Topics include, Will there be a blue tsunami?; How does the Electoral College stack up?; why isn't Texas considered a swing state?; What does the early vote tell us; What are the chances of Democratics taking the presidency, the House, and the Senate?; and What about the down-ticked races? Progress Texas PAC director Glenn W. Smith , is an op-ed columnist for the Austin...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, News Analysis, 2020 Elections
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Sep 13, 2019
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Rag Radio political analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda join host Thorne Dreyer in our regular feature, Digging In! to the News. Among topics to be discussed: Hong Kong; Brexit; Trump's falling numbers; can Texas Dems take the State House?; and the controversy surrounding Texas House speaker Bonnen. And more: The upcoming presidential debate in Houston; The narrative that Warren and Sanders are pulling the Dems too far to the left; the Hurricane Dorian that is Trump's mind!; and the...
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Rag Radio political analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda join host Thorne Dreyer in our regular feature, Digging In! to the News. We focus on the aftermath of the Dem debates and Roy leads a discussion about our situation with Iran. Did Elizabeth Warren dominate the first debate and did Kamala Harris become a force to reckon with? Did Uncle Joe falter and is his position atop the heap in danger? And as Roy asked after Trump stepped back from the brink in Iran, "Why didn't we just start...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, News Analysis, Iran, Democratic Debates
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Our regular Rag Radio new analysis program features Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda who join Thorne Dreyer in addressing the latest developments in the country and the world, especially in the world of politics. Progress Texas PAC director Glenn W. Smith , is an op-ed columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, a columnist for The Quorum Report, and a former political reporter for the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post. Roy Casagranda is Professor of Government at Austin Community College where...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, News Analysis, KOOP Radio
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Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer and news analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda talk about the latest on the coronavirus epidemic and the Black Lives Matter revolt. Also with us are Suzy Shelor and Rag Radio engineer Tracey Schulz. This is our first new show since the pandemic shut us all in; We recorded it via Zoom from our homes. Progress Texas PAC director Glenn W. Smith , is an op-ed columnist for the Austin American-Statesman , a columnist for The Quorum Report , and a former political...
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Today's show features Roy Casagranda and Banafsheh Madaninejad and we're talking about "Scorned Love: The U.S.' Bizarre Obsession with Iran." Why does the U.S. hate Iran so much? What are U.S. and Iranian foreign policy objectives? Where do Iraq, Syria, and Yemen come in? And, in general, the web of alliances and enemies. What about Iran's shooting down the passenger plane -- and how did they react to the demonstrations? And why did the U.S. back down on the brink of war? (Roy says...
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Jan 27, 2019
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Rag Radio political analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda join host Thorne Dreyer on the latest edition of "Digging In!," our own unique view of the news. The first topic Glenn and Roy tackle is the government shutdown (and the Trump-Pelosi wars). Other topics: Brexit, the 2020 depression, the new House of Reps, and the right's obsession with Alexandria Octavio-Cortez; the Dem presidential field (so far) and, from the Texas wire: Cruz and Cornyn sticking with Trump, and the Texas...
Topics: Rag Radio, Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, News Analysis, U.S. Politics
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Joining Thorne Dreyer are Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda and they're digging into the news. Pressing topics are Super Tuesday and the elections -- and what happens next -- and the coronavirus, especially as it involves Texas and SXSW. And, of course, Trump's lies. Progress Texas PAC director Glenn W. Smith , is an op-ed columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, a columnist for The Quorum Report, and a former political reporter for the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post. A leading political...
Topics: Rag Radio, Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, News Analysis, Coronavirus, Presidential Elections, Super...
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Government professor and Middle East expert Roy Casagranda joins Thorne Dreyer for a lively discussion of Donald Trump's first 100 days in general and his "foreign policy" in particular, especially as it relates to Syria, Afghanistan, and North Korea. Roy Casagranda is an Associate Professor of Government at Austin Community College where he teaches U.S. and Texas politics. His areas of research include Middle East history and politics, U.S. foreign policy, political philosophy, and...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Roy Casagranda, Tracey Schulz, Donald Trump, Trump's 100 Days, U.S....
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Nov 9, 2019
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Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer and political analysts Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are joined by Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies in our regular feature, Digging In! to the News. Among topics to be discussed: This week's elections in Texas and around the country, including the Texas House District runoff for Rep. John Zerwas' seat; the latest on impeachment and the Trump circus; the continuing fallout from the Texas House Speaker Bonnen affair; global revolution again: from Hong Kong to...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Glenn Smith, Roy Casagranda, David Martin Davies, News Analysis,, Roy...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest on Rag Radio is Middle East expert Roy Casagranda , who addresses the question, "How can we justify what the Palestinians have been made to endure?" Topics of discussion include whether Zionism is justifiable in the face of Palestinian suffering; The two-state solution vs. the one-state solution; Current conditions on the Gaza Strip and West Bank; Is Israel defending itself and its borders? (Is Nikki Haley correct?); Is Israel serious about peace? Roy Casagranda...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Roy Casagranda, Tracey Schulz, Palestinian Occupation, Israel, Gaza,...
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Noted Democratic strategist and Rag Radio political analyst Glenn Smith and Austin Community College Government Professor, Roy Casagranda, join host Thorne Dreyer on our latest edition of "Digging In!," our own unique view of the news. We spend some time focusing on the next two years, which may be harder than the last two. Trump is a wounded bear. What will he do? How will Dems react? In Texas, Democrats are stronger than they've been in years, taking offices in all the urban areas,...
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Middle East expert Roy Casagranda talks about ISIL, Syria, and the roots of the current crisis. We discuss background causes like the post-WWI division of the Ottoman Empire, FDR's post-Battle of Bulge orientation towards Saudi Arabia, the Eisenhower doctrine, and the 2003 genocidal war against the Iraqi people. Casagrava also offers a brief overview of where we are now and how we might go forward. The Rag Blog's Alice Embree joins us in this discussion. This is the first of two consecutive...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Roy Casagranda, Tracey Schulz, Syria, ISIS, ISIL, Terrorism, Middle East,...
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Roy Casagranda, an expert on Middle East politics and history, joins us for a second week to talk about the roots of the crisis with jihadist terror in Iraq, Syria, and the region. In our earlier interview (https://archive.org/details/RagRadio20151204RoyCasagranda), Roy discussed Syrian history and how Western actions dating back to the division of the Ottoman Empire and FDR's post-Battle of Bulge orientation towards Saudi Arabia helped lay the groundwork for the problems today. On this show we...
Topics: Rag Radio, Roy Casagranda, Tracey Schulz, ISIL, Terrorism, Middle East, Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy,...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guests are Rag Radio political analysts Roy Casagranda and Glenn Smith . It’s a high-energy, highly-informative, and quite rambunctious gallop through our ever-weirder political landscape. Of course we look at Donald Trump (who could miss him!) and the Bannon contretemps. Other topics include Michael Wolff's blockbuster book on Donald Trump, the reactions to it, and its likely effect on Trump's future. And we look at Trump in the context of Stephen Skowronek's book on the...
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On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, Thorne Dreyer , Alice Embree , Tracey Schulz , Suzy Shelor , Roy Casagranda , and Roger Baker discuss our first decade of Rag Radio programming. Plus some history of The Rag , Austin's legendary '60s-'70s underground newspaper, and its digital-age rebirth with The Rag Blog in 2006 and Rag Radio in 2009. Also featured are highlights and snippets from former shows with guests including Dan Rather and Robin Rather, Bill Kirchen, Margaret Moser, Bill Ayers...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is Lamar W. Hankins , a former San Marcos, Texas, City Attorney. Lamar is a frequent collumnist for The Rag Blog and recently wrote an article titled "The crime of dark skin: There is little justice in the 'criminal legal system' for black people." That article can be found here . In the article -- and on Rag Radio -- Lamar discusses his personal experiences with the legal and criminal justice systems. We are joined on the show by Rag Radio engineer Tracey...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is Allen Young , longtime progressive journalist and gay activist. Allen has lived in Rayalston, Mass, since 1973, when he was part of the "back-to-the-earth" movement. He worked briefly for the Washington Pos t, resigning in 1967 to become a full-time anti-war activist and staff member at Liberation News Service (LNS) in New York City where he worked with Rag Radio host Dreyer. In 1970, following the Stonewall Rebellion in New York, Young began his...
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Roger Baker is Thorne Dreyer 's guest on Rag Radio. Roger is a longtime Austin-based transportation activist and environmentalist and also speaks about issues related to politics and the economy. On this show, we discuss topics including the pandemic and how the Trump administration has handled it; Austin's new Tesla plant; the wildfires and climate change; the Green New Deal; peak oil; Congressional gridlock; and why he opposes Austin's massive Project Connect plan. Also joining us on the show...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Roger Baker, Project Connect, Climate Chaange, Pandemic
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Thorne Dreyer's guest is environmental researcher and activist Bruce Melton. Bruce, a longtime contributor to The Rag Blog and frequent guest on Rag Radio, is a professional engineer, filmmaker, author, and CEO of the Climate Change Now Initiative, the oldest independent climate science education organization in the world, founded in 2005. On the show Melton discusses issues raised in his current Rag Blog article, titled "Covid-19, Climate Change, permafrost collapse and our new, abruptly...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Bruce Melton, Environment, Covid-19, Climate Change
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is singer-songwriter Penny Jo Pullus who performs, backed by Matt Giles and Siobhán O'Brien , and also discusses her work with TeXchromosome, a nonprofit that advocates for, showcases, and promotes women artists. TeXchromosome includes a live music series and radio show and offers female-focused songwriting festivals and creative writing and career workshops to female musicians. Penny Jo Pullus' music combines roots and pop stylings. Starting out in the New York punk...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Penny Jo Pullus, Matt Giles, Siobhán O'Brien, Austin Musicians, Irish...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is historian and author Philip Russell who discusses Mexico under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), whose popular new progressive leadership followed the corrupt regime of Enrique Peña Nieto. Philip, who just returned from Mexico, will addresses the Mexican economy (and AMLO's micromanaging), his energy policy, fighting fuel theft, Mexico's never-ending violence, migration as seen from the Mexican perspective, Lopéz Obrador's daily press...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Philip Russell, Mexican History, AMLO, Lopéz Obrador, Mexico
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is historian and author Philip Russell , who has discussed the state of affairs in Mexico -- first under Enrique Peña Nieto and now under Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) -- for the last six years on Rag Radio. Among topics discussed are the political scene in Mexico under AMLO -- inside his party and outside. Also, his environmental record, security, his popularity, the economy, his three pet megaprojects, energy policy, immigration, and Mexico's Air Force One....
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Against the backdrop of SXSW -- and dedicated to theworldwide struggle against global warming -- Rag Radio presents The Band Climate Change in performance. Led by Bruce Melton , Rag Radio resident climate guru, other members of the band are George Hadash , Philip Fulton, Ken Atwater, and Tom Williams. Founded in 2002 the band started singing about climate change in 2008 after lead singer Melton returned from Greenland. Warming impacts were so profound, he was moved to write, and discovered...
Topics: Bruce Melto, The Band Climate Change, Live Music, Climate Change, Global Warming
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Feb 16, 2020
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Today's show is a Valentine's Card from Sonoma County, California. Journalist and author Jonah Raskin is Thorne Dreyer 's guest in a Valentine's Day special of sorts. Jonah reads some Valentine's Day poems and he'll also discuss the British TV series, Vera , a police procedural that reveals the "Other England." Vera, Jonah says, has a certain "Shakespearian veracity." And he'll talk about homelessness in Sonoma County's wealthy Wine Country and report on the latest on the...
Topics: Rag Radio, Jonah Raskin, Thorne Dreyer, Homelessness, Cannabis
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is historian and author Philip Russell , who has discussed the state of affairs in Mexico -- first under Enrique Peña Nieto and now under Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) -- for the last six years on Rag Radio. Austin resident Russell has written six books on Latin America, including The Essential History of Mexico (Routledge, 2016), and is the editor of the Mexico Energy News. Philip, who also writes about Mexico for The Rag Blog, is making his 11th appearance on...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Philip Russell, Mexico, López Obrador, Peña Nieto
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest Bruce Melton , a longtime contributor to The Rag Blog and guest on Rag Radio , is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, author, and CEO of the Climate Change Now Initiative in Austin, Texas -- the oldest, independent climate science education organization in the world, founded in 2005. We will discuss the presidential candidates' climate plans, including that of Elizabeth Warren. On the show we talk about carbon dioxide removal systems, Bruce's...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Global Warming, Padre Island
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is Louis Black . Louis is a co-founder of South by Southwest (SXSW), where he is a director, and The Austin Chronicle , where he was the editor for 36 years, and is a founding board member of the Austin Film Society. As someone who was deeply involved in much of the legendary culture of creativity in Austin, he and his work have also been defined by it. With partners, he helped build several of Austin's most iconic institutions, including the Austin Music Awards and the...
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Leading leftist thinker and organizer Carl Davidson joins Thorne Dreye r to address the question: "Socialism in America: What Might It Look Like?" Other topics include Donald Trump as a front for the Russian mob, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th birthday. Carl Davidson, a longtime friend and colleague, was a leader of the '60s New Left. Carl is co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a national board member of Solidarity Economy Network, and a member...
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Thorne Dreyer's guest is Dawn Paley, whose first book, Drug War Capitalism, tells us that, "The drug war is less about cocaine or marijuana than it is about social, economic, and territorial control... [it] lays bare the mechanisms through which state and corporate interests are advanced under the pretext of fighting drugs in Latin America." We talk with Paley about the myths of the drug war and the real human impacts it has in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. We discuss...
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Tom Philpott is the author of the recently-released “Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.” On the show we discuss farming in the Central Valley of California and the Midwest Corn Belt, two different stories but both are in ecological decline. And the larger issue of the Green New Deal. Tom Philpott has been the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones since 2011. Previously, he covered food as a writer and editor for the...
Topics: Rag Radio, Tom Philpott, Thorne Dreyer, Agriculture, Green New Deal, Ecological Decline
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Cultural Critic, media scholar, journalist, author, and activist Jonah Raskin is Thorne Dreyer 's guest. Jonah lives in northern California where he writes the cannabis column for two weekly newspapers, The Bohemian and the Pacific Sun . He has written about cannabis politics and culture since the 1970s. The author of biographies of Jack London and Allen Ginsberg and another of Abbie Hoffman, which has just been translated into French and published in France, Jonah is a long time contributor to...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Jonah Raskin, Cannabis, Ed Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Caronavirus
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Historian John A. Moretta is Thorne Dreyer's guest today on Rag Radio, and they are joined by Sixties activist and Rag Radio associate, Alice Embree. Moretta is the author of Political Hippies and Hip Politicos: Counterculture Alliance and Cultural Radicalism in 1960s Austin, published this month in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly by the Texas State Historical Association -- which he plans to expand into a book later this year. Moretta was also the author in 2017 of a book about the 1960s...
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Thorne Dreyer's guest on Rag Radio is singer, songwriter, and percussionist John Bush, joined in performance by guitarist Landis Armstrong. John Bush, who performs with the John Bush Band and other groups, is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in drums and percussion. Besides being an original member of the platinum-selling band, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Bush has played with Texas Music Hall of Famers Greezy Wheels, and has worked with many national and regional acts including Ian...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guests are Cleve and Sweet Mary Hattersley of the legendary Austin band, Greezy Wheels , members of the Austin Music Hall of Fame. Cleve and Sweet Mary perform, we play some music from their new cd, "Ain't Quite Like That," and we talk about Cleve's new book, Life is a Butt Dial -- and about their upcoming Merry Kinksters Tour with Kinky Friedman. Founded in the early '70s, Greezy Wheels is one of Austin's most iconic bands. Greezy played some of the most important...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Cleve Hattersley, Sweet Mary Hattersley, Greezy Wheels, Austin Musicians,...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is Pete Gershon , author of Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985 , the raucous, delightful, no-holds-barred story of how contemporary art came to Houston. (Clue: It was a collision!) In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene, Gershon describes the city's emergence as a locus for the arts. Cheech Marin says that "...Pete Gershon puts you in the middle of this wild, dynamic scene..." And, according to Bill Arning,...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Pete Gershon, Houston Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Art History
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest is Ed Crowell , author of Barton Creek . Following Barton Creek from downtown Austin's iconic Barton Springs Pool to its source as a cow-pasture trickle, longtime resident and journalist Ed Crowell explores the creek's contentious political history, its historic and current residents, and the mounting environmental pressures threatening it. Barton Creek highlights the passionate individuals involved in the stream's preservation, from city scientists to local landowners,...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Ed Crowell, Tracey Schulz, Barton Springs, Barton Creek, Austin History,...
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Thorne Dreyer ’s guests are Melissa Hield and Richard Croxdale of People’s History in Texas (PHIT), a nonprofit research, publishing, and media production organization that brings to life the stories of ordinary people and significant socio-political movements. Melissa Hield is executive director, interviewer, and producer for PHIT video projects. With four other women, she was a founding member of PHIT and has worked on successful projects since 1975. She has a M.A. and is ABD in American...
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Thorne Dreyer 's guest on Rag Radio is immigration attorney and legal scholar, Barbara Hines . Hines, a former clinical professor and founder of the University of Texas Law School Immigration Clinic, directed and co-directed the clinic from 1999 to 2014. She currently teaches as an adjunct professor at the law school. Professor Hines says there is no security threat at the border, and she tells us why -- and we discuss the wrongheaded nature of the enforcement-based Trump approach to...
Topics: Rag Radio, Barbara Hines, Immigration, Thorne Dreyer, Mexican Border, Trump Administration
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Historian and author Robert C. Cottrell is Thorne Dreyer' s guest on Rag Radio . Cottrell's latest book is All-American Rebellion: The American Left from the Wobblies to the Resistance. In the book, Cottrell traces the rise and fall, ebb and flow of left-wing American movements, from an overview of early 20th century movements through the 1960s to today's Trump-inspired resistance -- from women's suffrage to civil rights, to the environment, to the gay and lesbian liberation movement, and much...
Topics: Robert Cottrell, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, American History, American Left
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Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio is writer Joe Nick Patoski, whose tenth book is Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers & Geeks Who Transformed the Capital of Texas. Patoski has been writing about Texas and Texans for more than four decades. A staff writer for Texas Monthly magazine for 18 years, and a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, he has authored and co-authored biographies of Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Selena, and the Dallas Cowboys, and collaborated with...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Joe Nick Patoski, Tracey Schulz, Texas Authors, Austin, Austin to ATX,...
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Thorne Dreyer's guest is Chellis Glendinning, author of In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers . Glendinning, an award-winning writer and activist for social change, is a noted contributor to the field of eco-psychology, as well as bioregionalism, feminism, and indigenous rights. Chellis is the author of nine books, a bilingual opera, and hundreds of essays and articles - and several of her pieces have been published at The Rag Blog . A...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Chellis Glendinning, Authors, Political Activists, Bolivian Writers
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Novelist Thomas Zigal is Thorne Dreye r's guest on Rag Radio. Tom's dramatic new book, Outcry Witness , is about sexual abuse and cover-up in the Catholic Church. It is the third novel in his New Orleans trilogy. First was The White League, then Many Rivers to Cross , set in post-Katrina New Orleans, which won the Jesse H. Jones Award for fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Tom Zigal lives in Austin, Texas. Anthony Giardina writes: "As much as we think we all know about the...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thomas Zigal, Thorne Dreyer, Outcry Witness, Tracey Schulz, Texas Novelists, Texas...
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Carl Davidson, a longtime friend and colleague, was a leader of the '60s New Left. In the 1960s, Davidson served as Vice President and National Secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was a writer and editor at the leftist Guardian newsweekly. On the show we discuss the unprecedented convergence of crises facing us and ways that we can address them, the political situation in the country, the recent uptick in progressive Democratic victories and the pressure on Biden to...
Topics: Rag Radio, Carl Davidson, Thorne Dreyer, Leftist Analysis, Socialists, Current Affairs
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Cultural Critic, media scholar, activist, and Rag Blog contributor Jonah Raskin is Thorne Dreyer 's guest on Rag Radio. Jonah Raskin's latest "California noir" novel is Dark Day, Dark Night . His earlier novel featuring private eye Tioga Vignetta was Dark Land, Dark Mirror . Jonah Raskin is an activist and educator and the author of more than a dozen books (and poetry chap books), including biographies of Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman. A Sixties radical (he was Minister of...
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Jan 26, 2020
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Thorne Dreyer's guest on Rag Radio is Elliott Naishtat. Naishtat -- a progressive Democrat who held the District 49 seat in the Texas House of Representatives from January 1991 to January 2017 -- is an Austin-based member of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. The mission of the Holocaust Commission is "to bring awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides to Texas students, educators, and the general public by ensuring availability of resources, and in doing so imbue in...
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Nov 24, 2019
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Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, a native Texan, has been a published writer for the past 40 years and this is his fourth visit to Rag Radio. Tom is a Vietnam vet, an anti-war, environmental, and electoral reform activist, an aviation historian, and the author of several books. His latest book, which we discuss on this show, is MiG Alley: The U.S. Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953. According to Tom, "The book goes into some deep detail about the mistakes we made in Korea, the crimes committed against...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, Thorne Dreyer, American Authors, MiG Alley, Aviation History
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Mar 15, 2020
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Alice Embree is Thorne Dreyer 's guest host on Rag Radio this week. Alice is a longtime Austin political activist and journalist and a Rag Radio regular. Alice's guests are Sarah Lopez of Fund Texas Choice and Cristina Parker of the Lilith Fund. The show focuses specifically on abortion access in Texas as well as other reproductive justice issues. All three guests are highly attuned to the issues of racial and immigration justice and their impact on abortion access. They represent a new...
Topics: Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Sarah Lopez, Cristina Parker, Reproductive Justice,...
